Don Marquis (1878–1937)
Author of Archy and Mehitabel
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
To whoever combined or wants to combine "The Best of Don Marquis" with "archyology": these are not the same work. "archyology" is pure archy, "Best of" contains some "old soak" and other stuff as well as some archy. "Sun dial time" and "Love sonnets of a caveman" are not the same as each other or "Best of" either.
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Works by Don Marquis
Sonnets to a Red-Haired Lady (By a Gentleman with a Blue Beard) and Famous Love Affairs (2009) 8 copies, 2 reviews
When the Turtles Sing and Other Unusual Tales Concerning the Old Soak and Mr. Tim O'meara (1970) 4 copies, 1 review
Off the Arm 2 copies
Sons of the Puritans 2 copies
Why Abortion is Immoral 2 copies
[Don Marquis : box containing various pertaining to Archy and Mehitabel : a back-alley opera] 1 copy
the coming of archy [poem] 1 copy
Out of the sea 1 copy
The Best Of Don Morley 1 copy
the song of mehitabel [poem] 1 copy
Associated Works
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Contributor — 723 copies, 6 reviews
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Contributor — 455 copies, 1 review
Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times (1994) — Contributor — 338 copies, 4 reviews
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 140 copies, 1 review
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contributor — 103 copies, 1 review
The Best Short Stories of 1931 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1931) — Contributor — 7 copies, 1 review
1935 Essay Annual — Contributor — 4 copies
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1935 — Contributor — 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Marquis, Donald Robert Perry
- Birthdate
- 1878-07-29
- Date of death
- 1937-12-29
- Burial location
- Kew Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Walnut, Illinois, USA
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Walnut, Illinois, USA (birth)
Galesburg, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA (death) - Education
- Knox Academy
Walnut High School - Occupations
- literary journalist
novelist
playwright
poet - Relationships
- Marquis, Reina Melcher (wife)
- Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1923)
- Disambiguation notice
- To whoever combined or wants to combine "The Best of Don Marquis" with "archyology": these are not the same work. "archyology" is pure archy, "Best of" contains some "old soak" and other stuff as well as some archy. "Sun dial time" and "Love sonnets of a caveman" are not the same as each other or "Best of" either.
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Verse & cartoons about a cockroach named "archy" who's a reincarnation of a free-verse poet & "mehitabel", a cat who's a reincarnation of Cleopatra. It's typed in lower-case b/c the cockroach isn't strong enuf to make the upper-case letters. I reckon this is an off-hand tribute to e e cummings but maybe not since cummings wd've been around 20 when this 1st appeared in the papers in 1916. Maybe cummings was influenced by marquis?
Anyway, when I 1st ran across this I probably thought that it had a strong premise & that's why I read it. However, I don't remember being ultimately that impressed by it. Hollywood shd do a remake w/ special effects & lots of inter-species sex.… (more)
Anyway, when I 1st ran across this I probably thought that it had a strong premise & that's why I read it. However, I don't remember being ultimately that impressed by it. Hollywood shd do a remake w/ special effects & lots of inter-species sex.… (more)
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- Works
- 46
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boss
i read that book you did
about archy and mehitabel
with transmigrations and observations
on insects and alley cats
actors and aristocrats
politicians
prohibitions
and dried-up pharaohs
it was pretty good
for vers libre
humourous
satirical
not too lyrical
but wotthehell boss wotthehell
it was made into a musical
it made me chuckle
more than once
which is no mean feat
i try to be
toujours gai and jamais triste
but mehitabel i ain t
the illustrations were krazy
i could ve done
with more
pen scratch
line hatch
there was so much
more to draw
well
my time in
shinbone alley s
over
though i m sure to
visit agen
there s a read in
the old book yet
meanwhile i ll try
to keep
toujours gai boss toujours gai
so cheerio my deario… (more)